Arlington Cemetery Welcome Center
A Work in Progress

The new Arlington National Cemetery Welcome Center exhibits opened on 18 January 2013. The images below document the installation process during the previous two weeks. Installation, however, was but the culmination of a long process.

CMH's chief of museum programs developed a storyline and wrote and exhibit script that was vetted internally by Histories Division and externally by ANC staff, ANC's Advisory Council, and National Park Service Staff. CMH's designer provided a contemporary-looking exhibit to counterbalance the austere classicism of the Welcome Center building. She included a wide range of exhibit techniques including etching text and images directly on glass, an exacting process that required multiple design drawings for each layer - background graphics, text, and foreground photographs, maps, and drawings.

CMH's exhibit manager prepared all the contract documents for the project, allowing it to be bid, and modified as needed during the process. He made performance inspections to contractor and sub-contractor worksites and, along with the designer, served as CMH liaison to the fabrication and installation contractor.

It take a team like no other ...

Contractors from Capital Exhibit Services, Inc., unload nineteen super-size color graphics to be hung on the perimeter walls of the Arlington National Cemetery Visitor Center.